One could wear the cap (or clip) backwards and place the TrackIR camera behind the head.
Advantages:
- You could play in a 'living room' type environment where a TV or projector is typically across the room and doesn't provide a good place to set the trackIR. In this case you pretty much have to put the thing up on a pole in front of your view. In fact, if you have to look up at screen at all (from a low couch to a wall-mount TV) you need to raise the trackIR quite high to keep the bill of the cap from obscuring the upper reflector. If you could place the sensor behind your head, you could put it on a table behind you without blocking your view and, with no bill in front of your vision, the position of the cap can be adjusted a lot.
- You wouldn't have the bill of the hat blocking your view.
- You wouldn't see any part of the trackIR system.
Disadvantages:
- Can't think of any technical challenges to doing this? I believe you would simply need to mirror all axis except for translate up/down and yaw rotation.
place trackir behind head
Re: place trackir behind head
I've found the software lets you reverse any axis in the profiles
I've since tried this out, simply by reversing the hat on my head, with mixed results.
The shape of the hat means the angle is too low back vs. front. Even if you wear the hatband at eyebrow level, the trackclip is pointed downward too much.
You can compensate by lowering the trackIR and having it point at an upward angle at the back of your head.
This works great for pitch and yaw, I was playing Sturmovik with this all weekend. But more than 2 axis doesn't work so well since the yaw-line isn't in line with the rotation of your neck, causing a significant tilt and roll input when you yaw your head.
Anyone who wants to try this would need to use a different type of hat or attach the hatclip much higher using some alternative method.
Very promising, though. All it needs is a change in position of the hatclip.
I've since tried this out, simply by reversing the hat on my head, with mixed results.
The shape of the hat means the angle is too low back vs. front. Even if you wear the hatband at eyebrow level, the trackclip is pointed downward too much.
You can compensate by lowering the trackIR and having it point at an upward angle at the back of your head.
This works great for pitch and yaw, I was playing Sturmovik with this all weekend. But more than 2 axis doesn't work so well since the yaw-line isn't in line with the rotation of your neck, causing a significant tilt and roll input when you yaw your head.
Anyone who wants to try this would need to use a different type of hat or attach the hatclip much higher using some alternative method.
Very promising, though. All it needs is a change in position of the hatclip.
Re: place trackir behind head
Yep, the ability to mount the TrackIR in several different positions has been available in the software for awhile...